Patents Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 11022054
    Abstract: A method for determining the cylinder air-charge of an internal combustion engine in a non-fired operation, wherein a method for determining the cylinder air-charge in a fired operation is performed. According to the invention, provision is made that in the method for determining the cylinder air-charge in the fired operation, a correction factor is provided as a function of engine speed and engine load which adjusts the value of the cylinder air-charge determined by the method in the fired operation to the non-fired operation. Thus, the previously known methods can be improved and made more efficient, in particular in view of the deviations of up to 30% between the cylinder air-charge values in the non-fired operation and the modeled values of the fired operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan Vogelsang, Tobias Viereg, Marcin Piorun, Andre Shurkewitsch, Heiko Sternberg, Nikolaus Zimbalist
  • Patent number: 11021138
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for a motor vehicle parking robot. The parking robot includes a pair of wheel support arms and a retracted wheel retention arm configured laterally from the outside of the parking robot and configured to lift a wheel of a vehicle by extending the pair of wheel support arms and affix the wheel in place on the parking robot by extending the wheel retention arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Theodoros Tzivanopoulos
  • Publication number: 20210158544
    Abstract: A method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium with instructions for processing sensor data. In a first step, camera images are taken by a camera. Additionally, 3D-checkpoints are detected by at least one 3D-sensor. Optionally, at least one of the camera images can be segmented. The camera images are then merged with the 3D-checkpoints by a data fusion circuit to form data of a virtual sensor. The resulting data are finally output for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Simon Steinmeyer, Marek Musial, Carsten Deeg, Thorsten Bagdonat, Thorsten Graf
  • Patent number: 11015543
    Abstract: A method for dynamic gas partial pressure correction of an internal combustion engine with external mixture formation. A mixture formation is carried out in an intake manifold upstream of the cylinder of the internal combustion engine, and in which in addition to the gas partial pressure of the fresh air flowing continuously into the intake manifold, the gas partial pressure of the fuel, fed discontinuously into the intake manifold, is also taken into account. The gas partial pressure of the fuel, fed into the intake manifold, said pressure which is assumed to be stationary as a function of determined parameters, is dynamically adjusted for each of the cylinder-individual, temporally successive injections, discharged into the intake manifold, by means of a correction factor and a fresh air correction filling value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Janzen, Sven Mueller, Pierre Scheller
  • Patent number: 11018398
    Abstract: The invention relates, inter alia, to an assembly for fastening an upper shell or a lid to a lower shell of a battery housing, said assembly having at least one fastening element, by means of which the upper shell or the lid is or can be frictionally connected to the lower shell in the region of contact flanges, which correspond with each other and are laid one over the other. The at least one fastening element is formed by a rail element that has a U-profile-shaped cross-section at least in some sections which rail element has a web and an upper and a lower flange and is or can be slid onto the contact flanges from the end edges of the contact flanges, which are laid one over the other, and is or can be at least frictionally connected to the contact flanges as a result of a subsequent movement in the longitudinal direction of the contact flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Lutz Schröder, Daniel Weidemann, Sandra Hettwer, Oliver Rauls
  • Patent number: 11017062
    Abstract: A method for the secure interaction of a user with a mobile terminal and a further entity includes transmitting a secret or an image of the secret generated by a one-way function and an individual data from the user to a back-end, transmitting the image and the individual data from the back-end to a protected execution environment of a processor of the mobile terminal; notifying the user on a secure user interface of the mobile terminal, wherein the individual data is displayed to the user and wherein the user is authenticated with the secret, the user interacting with a secure element of the mobile terminal having a secure connection with the protected execution environment, via the secure user interface and the protected execution environment; and the secure element interacting with the further entity via a secured connection providing a complete security chain of all entities involved in the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Bastian Bartels
  • Patent number: 11015538
    Abstract: A method for controlling a supercharging system for an internal combustion engine, the supercharging stage including a compressor and a turbine, and the turbine being settable with the aid of a VTG driving circuit. The method including: detecting an operating state setpoint variable, setting a maximum VTG control criterion for implementing the torque increase by an increase in a boost pressure. The setting of the maximum VTG control criterion comprising: ascertaining a setpoint boost pressure; ascertaining a VTG setpoint position as a function of the setpoint boost pressure; ascertaining an actual exhaust gas back pressure; ascertaining an actual exhaust gas pressure downstream from the turbine; ascertaining a maximum exhaust gas back pressure, taking into account the actual exhaust gas pressure downstream from the turbine; determining the VTG control criterion, based on the difference between the actual exhaust gas back pressure and the maximum exhaust gas back pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Gebauer, Matthias Huebner
  • Patent number: 11016636
    Abstract: An infotainment system to which data is transmitted including contact data, such as telephone numbers or addresses, or multimedia data, such as audio or video data. The origin of the transmitted data is a mobile terminal, download from a database, an NFC tag or a QR code. Following reception of the data on the infotainment system, the infotainment system checks whether the transmitted data is associated with one of the functions of the infotainment system, a navigation function, and/or a reproduction function for audio and/or video data. If the transmitted data is associated with on the functions of the infotainment system, the infotainment system offers those functions with which the data can be associated to a user of the transportation vehicle for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thorsten Lindemann, Axel Köhnke, Stefan Tubbesing, Hans-Udo Pietruschka
  • Publication number: 20210143598
    Abstract: The invention relates to a socket device for a motor vehicle and to a motor vehicle comprising a socket device. The socket device comprises a housing in which a socket for receiving a plug is arranged. The socket device comprises a mount, by means of which the housing can be mounted at least indirectly on a separating wall of the motor vehicle so as to be able to rotate about an axis of rotation, such that the socket is accessible from both sides of the separating wall by means of a corresponding rotation of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Anton Salabai
  • Publication number: 20210144099
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method (100) for sending a data packet (430, 440) from a first communication unit (300) of a communication system via a transmission channel that is shared with at least one further communication unit (500). The method (100) comprises determining (110) a current access priority for the shared transmission channel by the first communication unit (300), wherein the current access priority is directed towards data currently transmitted over the transmission channel. The data packet (430, 440) is segmented (120) into packet segments (432, 434), wherein the packet segments (432, 434) have a priority value (410) which corresponds to a priority value (410) of the data packet (430, 440). The method also comprises sending (130) the packet segments (432, 434) from the first communication unit (300) via the shared transmission channel, wherein the packet segments (432, 434) are sent successively depending on the priority value and the current access priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Meier, Olaf Krieger
  • Publication number: 20210140362
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger assembly for a turbocharged internal combustion engine with a spiral housing, having at least two separated flow passages, at least one separating tongue separating the adjacent flow passages, and a turbine rotor, wherein the separating tongue is arranged such that the end of the separating tongue, said end facing the turbine rotor, is spaced from the edge of the turbine rotor such that crosstalk between the flow passages in the flow direction occurs upstream of the turbine rotor, wherein a crosstalk cross section AÜS is determinable depending on the distance between the separating tongue end and the edge of the turbine rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christopher GESSENHARDT, Dirk HAGELSTEIN, Tobias CZAPKA
  • Patent number: 11001197
    Abstract: A lighting system for a vehicle and a corresponding motor vehicle is implemented with personalized or individualizable lighting functions. A part of a lighting device is reserved for implementing main lighting functions in accordance with legal requirements and another part of the lighting device is reserved for generating individualizable lighting functions. The part for individualizable lighting functions can be freely programmed and actuated via a user interface, such as a smartphone, within the scope of the technical power limitations of the individual lighting devices while taking into consideration legal requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Studeny, Nils Pfullmann
  • Patent number: 11001183
    Abstract: An adapter for a grab handle in the interior of a motor vehicle, having an attachment portion for attaching the adapter to a vehicle body frame and having a retaining portion, which in the mounted state of the adapter, extends starting from the attachment portion in the direction of the vehicle interior and has a region to which a grab handle can be attached, is characterized in that the retaining portion between the attachment portion and the region to which a grab handle can be attached has a plastic formation or a plurality of plastic formations, so that with the forming of a first predetermined buckling line, a bending strength of the retaining portion in a first direction, in which the adapter is typically stressed in an accident situation, is reduced relative to a bending strength in a second direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Steffen Steinigk, Martin Habrom
  • Patent number: 11002199
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the exhaust-gas aftertreatment of an internal combustion engine (10), and to an internal combustion engine (10) having an exhaust-gas aftertreatment device for carrying out a method of said type. The internal combustion engine (10) is supplied with fresh air by way of a compressor (18), has an adjustable valve control means (12) for the inlet valves (14) and/or the outlet valves (16), and is connected to an exhaust duct (20), wherein, in the exhaust duct (20), there is arranged a first three-way catalytic converter (24), and an injection valve (26) for introducing fuel into the exhaust duct (20) is arranged, as viewed in the flow direction of an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine (10), downstream of an outlet (22) of the internal combustion engine (10) and upstream of the first three-way catalytic converter (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Stefan Paukner
  • Patent number: 11001211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for secure signal manipulation for testing integrated safety functionalities and to a system for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Henning Dürkop, Marc Neubauer, Alejandro Lorda Cobos
  • Patent number: D919410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thorsten Richter, Jens Kohlhase, Bernd Soltendieck
  • Patent number: D919411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thorsten Richter, Jens Kohlhase, Bernd Soltendieck
  • Patent number: D920207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Arturo Peralta
  • Patent number: D920552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Felix Runde
  • Patent number: D920877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Thomas Sittler